Miami Heat add Stanley Johnson to Skyforce but big roster hurdles remain

The Miami Heat are coming off two of their worst defeats of the year in their last two contest.

Though this has already been a season, for as short as it has been, that has been filled with numerous ups and downs, the last two losses are of the most painful nature due to how they happened and who they happened to.

Coming off one of the biggest wins of the year, for any club after beating the league-leading 18-4 Celtics at that point who had just come off a win over these same Miami Heat in the immediate game prior, they would drop two wins to two clubs that shouldn’t have been able to get wins over them.

For starters and with a fully healthy batch of guys going, for the most part, the Miami Heat would drop a game to the Grizzlies in Memphis where they had the opposite going, their top three guys down.

Then, as we all know by now, they would drop a game to one of the worst teams in the entire league, the Detroit Pistons. Though the Pistons have been trending upward in very recent weeks, with wins over Utah, Denver, and Dallas, the Miami Heat had no business taking that painful defeat at home to that ball club.

Miami Heat Add Stanley Johnson To Skyforce But Big Roster Hurdles Remain

Heading into Thursday’s game with the Los Angeles Clippers, the Miami Heat seem desperate to get back on the court to begin to shift the narrative once again. But perhaps, they may have just begun to help themselves on the court more with a move off the court.

Here’s what that means, so to speak.

Adding, though still young, NBA veteran, Stanley Johnson, to their G-Leauge affiliate over in Sioux Falls, the Miami Heat may have just gotten a real high-quality piece—for what it is they seek to do on a night-in and night-out basis anyway.

But what was noted above by Winderman’s tweet is important too. This move doesn’t necessarily mean that other teams still don’t have the opportunity to pounce on Johnson’s services.

And with that, even among the hurdles Winderman highlights, means that the Miami Heat need to be quick. Not that this means they need to hurry and sign him, outright, but they must hurry to see what he can offer them along the big roster.

Miami Heat Could Really Potentially Benefit From Adding Johnson To Big Roster

For what it’s worth, adding Johnson seems like the exact type of move this Miami Heat team needs to help get them to where they are trying to go. He’s not a big addition, but he may be the right kind of addition.

It’s never really been about a star move for the Heat, as much as someone or someones to help in key and critical deficient areas like defense, rebounding, and easy transition buckets to help the offense. He’s a tweener, able to play in the middle areas and guard almost any position.

That speaks towards his average outside shooting prowess as well, something that the Miami Heat can help him with but also to the fact that he actually wants to guard on the other side.

That, along with his physicality, strength, athleticism, and noted remaining youth could make him, not only, a really good add but a piece capable of, again, injecting just the jolt into this team that they need right now with his hustle, dirty work, and time to time excitement on the floor.

Nothing is certain but just by getting him that much closer to their regular roster, possibly having an opportunity to show the Heat what he has in concert with the rest of their guys, this is a positive development for the roster. Hopefully, he is as good a fit as he seems and they can find a way to keep him.